'Marvel Puzzle Quest' 1-Year Anniversary Celebration!

Lidolas wrote:

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arktos1971 wrote:

Think Gaming gives numbers for the iOS platform only. Android is not counted. So the daily gross is not that number.

Each shield hop costs 108 HP (75 shield + 33 rainbow). There must be around 10 hops / PvP (at least), that's 1080 HP / PvP / player. There must be around 300 players doing this per event. That's 324 000 HP. Health packs are not massively used IMO.

HP earned per Event is 200 HP per player.

Net gross : 324 000 - 60 000 : 264 000 HP : $ 1320 per event. 3 events a week, 52 weeks : $205 920

There are lots of companies which would be very happy to earn that amount of money each year on digital products...

Now, covers sold for a new 3* character. Same 300 players buying the missing covers. That's 5 (minimum) :

300 * 5 * 1250 = $9300, twice a month, 12 months : $ 223 000

Shield hopping and covers are about the same gross.

Disclaimer : if you think the calculation is wrong, please elaborate and avoid bashing

The bolded part needs to be changed. An individual without an alliance can earn 200 hp in an event. Top 50 alliances get an extra 100, and more up higher. PvE subs and main events have been handing out hp also.

I don't use the rainbow boosts to hop. Only the ones that can be bought with iso. 10 hops is also a lot. Plenty of players are getting to 1300 on 2-4 shields. A lot of players are still economical and try to stay HP neutral or positive on an event. I've still never spent money on the game, yet use HP for shields all the time.

Just wanted to say that the Anniversary Celebration has been great! Really solid work with this!

I'll say that the celebration as a whole is actually looking pretty good now that it's out. Double ISO is great for sure. One thing I'm disappointed about is that they did not announce the HP/ISO sale in advance. As a result I ended up buying some HP beforehand when I probably would have waited otherwise.

I know they don't have to announce these and it's nice that they even put sales on. Still, it feels pretty **** for that to happen, especially when sales for the anniversary were specifically asked about in a thread that community managers were obviously reading through and responding to. They just chose not to respond, since announcing a sale beforehand could mean lost revenue, I suppose?

Also a bit disappointed that the "small token" was literally one token. People like free stuff. Only thing people like more, is more free stuff. Yes, we have plenty of opportunities to earn the anniversary prizes, but even more than that, we have plenty of opportunities to BUY the anniversary prizes. At the end of the day, it still feels more like a great opportunity to BUY MORE STUFF, rather than something which is focused on giving back to the community.

Nellobee wrote:

Ugh. 7 anniversary tokens in, nothing but **.

10+ tokens and nothing but 2* trash here as well.

Demiurge can keep their Devil Dinosaur and stuff him where the sun doesn't shine.
The terrible drop rate and the fact that he's going away after this event has completely spoiled him.

The only good thing about this event is the doubled ISO rate, which quite frankly is close to what the normal rate in the game should be, instead of the ISO starved status quo.
Color me thoroughly unimpressed with this anniversary event.

yogi_ wrote:

There is theoretically nothing stopping a random person getting thousands of HP and ISO and high level covers over a week and another getting only 2* covers, though obviously the bulk will fall between these two extremes.

That can be quite effectively combatted by guaranteeing an actual worthwhile drop every X tokens. Other games have included that type of "insurance drop" before without adverse effects to game economy. No reason the same cannot be done here.

_RiO_ wrote:

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yogi_ wrote:

There is theoretically nothing stopping a random person getting thousands of HP and ISO and high level covers over a week and another getting only 2* covers, though obviously the bulk will fall between these two extremes.

That can be quite effectively combatted by guaranteeing an actual worthwhile drop every X tokens. Other games have included that type of "insurance drop" before without adverse effects to game economy. No reason the same cannot be done here.

I am not familar with this insurance drop concept but does sound like a useful one and one clearly they did not consider.

What they probably should / could have done is given everyone a 1/1/1 Devil Dino spread over the week. It would have been genuinely generous and even not had him in tokens if they wanted to limit him - this would be fair and even for all players rather than a fancy version of the norm which statistically speaking is going to be amazing for some people and pretty shthouse for others (as we've seen across this thread).

yogi_ wrote:

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_RiO_ wrote:

yogi_ wrote:

There is theoretically nothing stopping a random person getting thousands of HP and ISO and high level covers over a week and another getting only 2* covers, though obviously the bulk will fall between these two extremes.

That can be quite effectively combatted by guaranteeing an actual worthwhile drop every X tokens. Other games have included that type of "insurance drop" before without adverse effects to game economy. No reason the same cannot be done here.

I am not familar with this insurance drop concept but does sound like a useful one and one clearly they did not consider.

What they probably should / could have done is given everyone a 1/1/1 Devil Dino spread over the week. It would have been genuinely generous and even not had him in tokens if they wanted to limit him - this would be fair and even for all players rather than a fancy version of the norm which statistically speaking is going to be amazing for some people and pretty shthouse for others (as we've seen across this thread).

They will be giving each cover of Dino in daily rewards for days 365, 366 and 367.